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SD Legislators Dealing with Even More Money

SD Legislators Dealing with Even More Money

Senator Jean Hunhoff Photo: WNAX


While South Dakota lawmakers will have to decide how to spend almost a billion dollars in federal funds, state tax returns have also brought a bonus.
Senator Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says they will have over three hundred million extra dollars from state tax collections….

Hunhoff says the state dollars can only go to onetime expenses…

Hunhoff says most of the big infrastructure projects will be funded from the federal dollars…

Hunhoff says all the spending decisions will come down to the final day of the session on March tenth.
Hunhoff took part in the District 18 legislative forum on Saturday.

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